Will That Wretched ERP Finally Die? Possibly, But Only the Acronym!
P.J. Jakovljevic - May 1, 2000

Event Summary

'The traditional ERP model is dead and collaborative commerce (c-commerce) is emerging to take its place.' This was yet another ERP demise prediction, this time given by a speaker at a symposium in Europe at the beginning of April, which was hosted by a leading research house. He went on to predict that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) would become as important as ERP in the electronic economy by 2004. A prediction was given that ERP systems will only host 40 percent of business applications by 2004 due in part to the rise of collaborative commerce, or c-commerce...